gullet

«gullet» in Mova's school dictionary: The tube that food goes down from the mouth to the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a gullet, gullets)

meaning for a pupil

1) The tube that food goes down from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus. tree →

2) The throat. tree →

sense in the lessons

A science and story word. In science, food goes down the gullet (oesophagus) by muscle squeezes. In Kipling's Just So Story «How the Whale got his Throat», the sailor fixes a grating in the Whale's throat, so after that the Whale can only swallow very small fish; the story is a made-up explanation, not real science.

examples

• Food passes down the gullet to the stomach. tree →
• A fishbone got stuck in his gullet. tree →
• The pelican swallowed the fish whole down its gullet. tree →
• The Whale's throat, or gullet, was blocked by a grating in Kipling's story. tree →
• The heron gulped the frog into its gullet. tree →
• Muscles in the gullet push food down even if you are upside down. tree →
• In her youth she had once swallowed a hook, and still swam patiently about with it in her gullet. tree →

note

Countable. The science word is «oesophagus» (UK) or «esophagus» (US). Do not confuse the gullet (food pipe) with the windpipe (trachea, for air). Real whales: baleen whales do have small throats, but not because of any grating — Kipling made that up.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gullet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.